Nothing is ever as easy as it should be....
So, I didn't get to sleep until 1:30AM last night because of various complications in putting the scenes together.
First, for some reason the orchestra software I use doesn't like being exported to a wave file when there is a video track in the project. It kept dropping notes during the mixdown, whereas during regular playback it sounded fine. Took me about an hour to finally figure out that if I removed the video track, it worked properly.
After that, I found that a render I did for Scene 3 of MILZ had a few seconds of black in it for no good reason. So I had to go back into After Effects and figure out why the layer had been shifted over, and where it needed to be shifted back to, based on the timeline in Premiere. Then I had to re-render that part.
Then, I exported everything to DVD and started the compiling/burning process. When I came back 45 minutes later, I found that it had stalled because my hard drive was full and it never created the files (the drive was full because of this stupid "conforming audio" thing that Premiere does, where it basically dumps higher-quality audio of all of your clips (even ones you're not using) to your hard drive to speed up processing. It's a really stupid feature and you can't turn it off). So, I had to start the DVD process over again.
Finally, at about 12:45AM, the DVD was done. Popped it in the player, and all was good until the last scene, where the audio was badly out of sync. So I had to go back into Premiere, realign the audio, re-export the audio, re-encode it to AC3, put it back into the DVD project, and burn the whole DVD again.
Sometimes technology is cool; sometimes it's just a pain in the ass. Either way, I'm tired, and with all of the Hondance prep work that needs to be done tonight, it seems as if the day won't be over for a long, long time. But, at least there will be beer, and that tends to make even the worst situations tolerable.
Ryan
First, for some reason the orchestra software I use doesn't like being exported to a wave file when there is a video track in the project. It kept dropping notes during the mixdown, whereas during regular playback it sounded fine. Took me about an hour to finally figure out that if I removed the video track, it worked properly.
After that, I found that a render I did for Scene 3 of MILZ had a few seconds of black in it for no good reason. So I had to go back into After Effects and figure out why the layer had been shifted over, and where it needed to be shifted back to, based on the timeline in Premiere. Then I had to re-render that part.
Then, I exported everything to DVD and started the compiling/burning process. When I came back 45 minutes later, I found that it had stalled because my hard drive was full and it never created the files (the drive was full because of this stupid "conforming audio" thing that Premiere does, where it basically dumps higher-quality audio of all of your clips (even ones you're not using) to your hard drive to speed up processing. It's a really stupid feature and you can't turn it off). So, I had to start the DVD process over again.
Finally, at about 12:45AM, the DVD was done. Popped it in the player, and all was good until the last scene, where the audio was badly out of sync. So I had to go back into Premiere, realign the audio, re-export the audio, re-encode it to AC3, put it back into the DVD project, and burn the whole DVD again.
Sometimes technology is cool; sometimes it's just a pain in the ass. Either way, I'm tired, and with all of the Hondance prep work that needs to be done tonight, it seems as if the day won't be over for a long, long time. But, at least there will be beer, and that tends to make even the worst situations tolerable.
Ryan
posted by Ryan Graham at 11:22 AM
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